Dog soldier / Garth Nix -- The girl with the killer eyes / B.B. Kristopher -- Bow shock / Gregory Benford -- Decaf and spaceship, to go / Katherine Sanger -- All the things you are / Mike Resnick -- A time to kill / S. Andrew Swann -- Local boy makes good / Ray Tabler -- The old woman in the young woman / Gene Wolfe -- Candy-Blossom / Dave Freer -- What would Sam Spade do? / Jo Walton -- Giving it fourteen percent / Ani S. Fox -- Every hole is outlined / John Barnes -- Fishing / Thea Hutcheson -- Bob's Yeti problem / Lawrence Person -- Brieanna's constant / Eric Witchey -- The darkness / David Drake -- The cold blacksmith / Elizabeth Bear -- The nature of things / Maya Kaathryn Bohnoff -- Sisters of Sarronym; Sisters of Westwind / L.E. Modesitt, Jr. -- The opposite of pomegranates / Marissa Lingen -- As black as hell / John Lambshead -- Benny comes home / Esther Friesner -- Femme fatale / Jason Wittman -- A hire power / Jeremy Simon -- Poga / John Barnes -- The legacy of Jim Baen / Eric Flint -- Why die? / Jim Baen -- A genetic model for eternal life as an evolutionary strategy / Karl Inne Ugland -- A personal remembrance of Jim Baen / John Lambshead